kintbury jon

The red and grey stripes look OK to me - am I missing something?

Thanks for the replies - i'll probably remove them all and buy a heet of rub-on transfers. On the plus side I found the blue plates. I've left the crests off as it appears to have spent more time in NSE without them.

Right i've been at work with the 50. Careful melting of the plastic on the inside has cleared up the crack. Black paint around the cab end windows and white painted cab doors. I have carefully removed the numbers 4 and 8 but dug out my rub-on Replica transfers to find that they are too small. Having looked at the other renumberings on the earlier posts, can someone let me know if there are any transfers that are the same size as the Hornby ones? If not I guess i'll have to remove all the numbers and start again. Also, could someone help me find the 'Courageous' plates that I have mislaid!

I am!

Thanks for the info. I've ordered some blue plates (which comes with the crests too). Will be a bit different to a normal red plated one like 026. I just hope the crack doesn't get any worse in the post! .jpg] I won it last night for GBP33 on that well known auction site. As the damage is only on one side I can run it around the 'wall' side of the layout anyway!

Check out this site: http://www.class50.com/c50_intro.php?pf=liveries Select Original NSE and it will show you the differences

New question (that I think I have worked out!): Was 50032 the last 50 to retain original NSE? I've pickes up a cheap damaged 048 (got a huge crack on one side!) and am thinking of a renumber. I'm aware that the cab doors will need repainting white.

I hope they leve things as they are. My Hornby 56 and 60 will pull the first bogie of most things when they go around corners - particularly S bends. Whilst a heavy weight on the first wagon solves the problem, it's still something i'd rather not have to do.

Have they made a modification to the roof?

I'm trying to think which show I saw it at - thought it looked familiar!

Looks good! There are a couple on ebay too. I assume that the large logo and old Intercity versions won't be too far behind.